Question
Why is the ‘Emergency’ and the period around it known as the period of Constitutional crisis? Explain.
Solution
(i) Conflict between Parliament and the Judiciary on the question ‘can the Parliament abridge the Fundamental Rights’.
(ii) Can the Parliament curtail the right to property? Court responded by stating it cannot amend the Constitution to curtail the rights.
(iii) The Parliament amended the Constitution saying that it can abridge no Fundamental Right for giving effect to Directive Principles, but the Supreme Court also rejected it.
Due to these conflicts, this period is called the period of Constitutional Crisis.
